Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Apathy. Nowhere is the X-factor of Negro participation more potentially decisive than in Virginia, where three Democratic incumbents who personify the Old Dominion's conservative tradition are being challenged in the July 12th primary. U.S. Representative Howard Worth ("Judge") Smith, 83, longtime chairman of the House Rules Committee, is seeking his 19th House term, faces a Democratic opponent for the first time in more than a decade. State Assemblyman George C. Rawlings, 44, a Fredericksburg attorney and avowed liberal, plans to make Smith's obstructionism on civil rights and other contemporary issues the focus of his campaign...
...give Rawlings more than an outside chance of overcoming Judge Smith's longtime reservoir of respect and affection. Admitting that what he calls "the dinosaur vote" is still strong in Smith's bailiwick, Rawlings hopes that the district's increased Negro vote may prove the decisive factor-as it could in the other two races. Statewide, 61,096 more Virginia Negroes are enfranchised than in 1964, increasing total Negro voting strength to 205,000, or 19.7% of the Old Dominion's 1964 election turnout. The increase is particularly significant in Virginia, since for years less than...
...last week staked out for themselves some of the choicest acreage in the Great Society-the tulip beds of Lafayette Square, just a few steps across Pennsylvania Avenue from Lyndon Johnson's front door and within nailing distance of his bedroom window. "We want," declared Camp Leader Frank Smith, 25, "to let the President see exactly what the housing situation is in Mississippi...
...Smith bowed finally to the demand that his group go back to Mississippi and lay the proper groundwork for an agency grant. For, while the capital camp-in smacked of a Gogol comedy, the plight of the Delta Negroes, evicted from their sharecroppers' homes after they struck cotton plantations last year, was indeed tragic-and hardly likely to improve without federal help...
...Hour Delay. Off to Portugal rushed Lord Walston, British Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs. The Portuguese, who make no secret of their support for Smith, only shrugged, refusing to interrupt "normal commerce" in Mozambique. Back in London, the Wilson government requested an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council and began drafting a resolution that-if approved-would give U.N. sanction to the use of British force in stopping Rhodesia-bound...